Another monthly installment of the rationality quotes thread. The usual rules apply:
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I had a thought recently, what if the existence of a benevolent, omnipotent creator was proven? and my first thought was that I would learn to love the world as the creation of a higher power.
And that disturbed me. It's too new a thought for me to have plumbed it properly. But this reminded me. In the absence of the stars, what becomes of their beauty?
When the world is bereft of tigers, glaciers, the Amamzon, will we feel it to be sublime?
imma go read the poem now
Another monthly installment of the rationality quotes thread. The usual rules apply: